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| subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = | subdivision_type2 = Regions | subdivision_name2 = Sierra Nevada, Gold Country | seat_type = County seat | seat = San Andreas | parts_type = Largest community | parts = Rancho Calaveras | unit_pref = US | area_total_sq_mi = 1037 | area_land_sq_mi = 1020 | area_water_sq_mi = 17 | elevation_max_footnotes = | elevation_max_ft = | elevation_min_footnotes = | elevation_min_ft = | population_as_of = April 1, 2010 | population_footnotes = | population_total = 45578 | pop_est_as_of = 2014 | pop_est_footnotes = 〔 | population_est = 44624 | population_density_sq_mi = auto | established_title = Incorporated | established_date = February 18, 1850〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Chronology )〕 | leader_title = | leader_name = | leader_title1 = | leader_name1 = | timezone = Pacific Time Zone | utc_offset = -8 | timezone_DST = Pacific Daylight Time | utc_offset_DST = -7 | postal_code_type = | postal_code = | area_code_type = Area code | area_code = 209 | blank_name_sec1 = FIPS code | blank_info_sec1 = 06-009 | blank1_name_sec1 = GNIS feature ID | blank1_info_sec1 = | image_map = Map of California highlighting Calaveras County.svg | mapsize = 200px | map_caption = Location in the state of California | image_map1 = Map of USA CA.svg | mapsize1 = 200px | map_caption1 = California's location in the United States | website = | footnotes = }} Calaveras County, officially the County of Calaveras, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 45,578.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/06/06009.html )〕 The county seat is San Andreas,〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 and Angels Camp is the only incorporated city. ''Calaveras'' is the Spanish word for skulls; the county was reportedly named for the remains of Native Americans discovered by the Spanish explorer Captain Gabriel Moraga. Calaveras County is located in both the Gold Country and High Sierra regions of California. Calaveras Big Trees State Park, a preserve of Giant Sequoia trees, is located in the county several miles east of the town of Arnold on State Highway 4. Credit for the discovery of giant sequoias here is given to Augustus T. Dowd, a trapper who made the discovery in 1852 while tacking a bear. When the bark from the "Discovery Tree" was removed and taken on a tour around the world, the trees soon became a worldwide sensation and one of the county's first tourist attractions. The uncommon gold telluride mineral calaverite was discovered in the county in 1861 and is named for it. Mark Twain set his story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", in the county. The county hosts an annual fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee, featuring a frog-jumping contest, to celebrate the association with Twain's story. Each year's winner is commemorated with a brass plaque mounted in the sidewalk of downtown Historic Angels Camp and this feature is known as the Frog Hop of Fame. The California red-legged frog, feared extinct in the county by 1969, was rediscovered in 2003. == Etymology == The Spanish word ''calaveras'' means "skulls." The county takes its name from the Calaveras River; it was said to have been named by Spanish explorer Gabriel Moraga when he found many skulls of Native Americans along the banks of the stream. He believed they had either died of famine or been killed in tribal conflicts over hunting and fishing grounds. In fact, the human remains were of the native Miwuk people killed by Spanish soldiers after they banded together to rise against Spanish missionaries. The Stanislaus River, which runs through the county, is named for Estanislao, a Lakisamni Yokut who escaped from Mission San Jose in the late 1830s. He is reported to have raised a small group of men with crude weapons, hiding in the foothills when the Spanish attacked. The natives were quickly decimated by Spanish gunfire. In 1836, John Marsh, Jose Noriega, and a party of men, went exploring in Northern California. They made camp along a river bed in the evening, and when they woke up the next morning, discovered that they had camped in the midst of a great quantity of skulls and bones. They also gave the river the appropriate name: Calaveras.〔Lyman, George D. ''John Marsh, Pioneer: The Life Story of a Trail-blazer on Six Frontiers,'' pp. 207-8, The Chautauqua Press, Chautauqua, New York, 1931.〕〔Winkley, John W., ''Dr. John Marsh: Wilderness Scout,'' pp. 54-5, The Parthenon Press, Nashville, Tennessee, 1962.〕〔Thompson, Thomas Hinkley, and West, Albert Augustus. ''History of San Joaquin County, California,'' p. 13, 1879.〕 The writer Mark Twain spent 88 seminal days in the county, during which time he heard the story that became ''The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County'' in the Angel Hotel in 1865. This short story kicked off Mark Twain's career and put Calaveras County on the map. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Calaveras County, California」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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